On one natural understanding of this notion, a pragmatic consideration is one that has to do with utility or usefulness in the service of some goal connected to human interests, where these interests are in some relevant sense "practical".
There may be merit in developing and testing a simpler data collection tool that focuses on clinical utility in the health service allowing intervention to adapt to meet local needs and demand.
M-KOPA extends this risk model into the provision of solar power as a supported service, similar to a regulated utility in the commitments to service reliability and customer support.
At the organizational level, organizational support, fairness, and social utility of the service were considered in the present study.
The revolutionary-era Russian Constructivists weren't kidding when they subjected art to strictures of utility, in service to the engineering of an anti-individualist social order.
Markets, currency, trade, business, the state, the EU, the stock market and the media are either in the service of utility, of making life better for as many as possible, or utility is secondary to a kind of sadistic accountancy.
A number of studies have attempted to develop a practical economic model for tiered service, but failed to effectively capture the complex interaction between pricing, resource allocation, and user utility in tiered service.
Do software engineering consulting experts see significant utility in adopting service delivery practices for software development?
Organisational learning is an approach that helps business to thrive in changing market conditions but it has rarely been evaluated in health care research and so its validity and utility in health service practice is yet to be established [ 12].
